THE AMERICAN CHURCH INSTITUTE F FOR NEGROES OUR new teachers' cottages are to be built at St. Paul's School, Lawrenceville. The cottages are necessary to keep some of the best teachers and workers, and will, when occupied, constitute a nucleus for a social settlement about the school. These will cost $5,000. There is only $4,000 in hand. The Board also approved the very beautiful plan submitted by Moller & Smith for the future material plant of St. Paul's School. The school grounds are easily amenable to artistic treatment, and the architects have designed a plant according to the general plan of L'Ecole Militaire at Paris, which will make St. Paul's one of the most beautiful school plants in the South. with the sense that life on the land is not slavery, the Institute's department of agriculture is proposing to conduct exposition plots for the benefit of neighboring farmers which will show the great improvement in immediate results obtainable by the simple expedients of proper ploughing, seed selecting, and care of crops. T R. and Mrs. Hunter, of St. Augus tine's, recently visited Faison, N. C., a school in the country where a former graduate of St. Augustine's is at work, and of which Mr. Hunter writes that it is "heartily supported by the sentiment of white and colored people, yet doing work under very great disadvantages." It is one of the most interesting results of the work of our schools that the graduates become impressed immediately on entering their life-work with the sense of missionary obligation. A teacher in the Tennessee School for Colored Deaf writes to Mr. Hunter expressing his great pleasure in his work, and says that he thinks teaching is the most beautiful and Christ-like work that any young man or woman can do, "because in teaching one ranks next to the parent in duty and responsibility and in shaping the destiny of future generations." Another writes from Louisville, Ky., where he found a mission with a congregation of about 160 communicants, that with their aid he has raised a fund of $800, and that at the recent convention the church became a self-supporting parish. He further says that the interest of the bishop and the city clergy makes it easy and pleasant to work in the diocese. H BY THE REVEREND Y. Y. TSU, B.A. AD St. Andrew's Dispensary been opened in a city like Shanghai, where such similar works have been so numerously carried on already, it might not have attracted much attention. But to a city like Wusih, its opening is of the most intense interest. That it should be so is easily gathered from the fact that this dispensary is the first of its kind ever seen in this city. Although there have been a few cases of individual efforts at ameliorating the physical sufferings of the people, by the help of foreign medicine, yet not until now has there been accessible to the public a properly furnished building with specialized rooms such as this dispensary gives. That the officials and gentry, as well as the common people, appreciate such noble enterprise of the Christian mission and such altruistic efforts of Dr. Lee, backed as he is by the kind friends abroad, is demonstrated by their presence at the opening functions and their participation therein. There were two meetings on that memorable opening day, March 14th. At 9:30 A.M. about fifty Christians assembled in the two waiting rooms of the dispensary were artistically decorated with scrolls of Chinese characters conveying the congratulatory greetings from many friends. Bishop Graves made an address explaining to the Chinese Christians the purpose and meaning of the hospital. At one o'clock the second meeting commenced. The attendance consisted of the guests and prominent members of the city gentry, Christian friends, the foreigners from Shanghai, and the magistrates of the two "shens" (or districts). Many people could not get in, owing to the lack of space. This meeting was presided over by the Rev. G. F. Mosher, the clergyman in charge of the Wusih mission. There were nine speakers, who arranged themselves in a semicircle at one end of the long room. After a prayer by the bish op there came, one after another, the speeches, lively interspersed by bright remarks from Mr. Mosher, as he introduced the different speakers. Bishop Graves said that he was present as the representative of the mission and extended a hearty greeting to all the officials and guests who were present: The hospital was a proof that the mission, in coming to Wusih, had come as the friend of the people of the city. All who were sick or in pain would be treated with equal care and courtesy. American missionaries were present in China as her guests and as the friends of all the Chinese people without distinction, whether they were rich or poor. He hoped the hospital would be of great help to the people of Wusih. Dr. C. M. Lee, the physician in charge of the dispensary and its founder, made. his speech in the local dialect. "The American Church Mission to-day opens the St. Andrew's Dispensary in your honored city. Next Monday it will be ready to receive patients and outcalls. The medicine we will use will be of the best, being ordered from England and the United States. The method and treatment will be most up to date. There will be no distinction made between the poor and the rich either in medicine or in attention. The aim in opening this dispensary is not only to give help to man's body, but also to give the opportunity for hearing the teachings of Jesus." Then Magistrate Ei, of Wusih, was introduced, who spoke very eloquently on the benefits to be accrued from the dispensary by his people. "We now know that it is a mistake to make a sweeping statement that all foreigners are China's enemies. We should have perfect confidence in this dispensary and the doctors. Let no ignorant and irresponsible folks create rumors or disturbances about it. In opening this work the missionaries show us that they are actuated by the highest motivesthat of love for our people." share in this magnificent work is called for." Dr. Wm. Hamilton Jeffreys, of St. Luke's Hospital, Shanghai, in Mandarin said: "To-day being the opening of the Pu-nhen-i-yuan (the Chinese name for the dispensary) my friend, Dr. Lee, requested me to come and speak a few words of congratulation to you. Gentlemen, what I intend to say is little. In the first place, this hospital, though small and necessarily incomplete in its equipment, is, nevertheless, the best and most useful work for Wusih. It is only I am inclined to prophesy that in twenty-five years time there will be at least twenty-five like buildings established." Next he devoted a few words on the high and efficient qualifications of Dr. Lee as a doctor, the latter's benevolent heart and thorough care of the sick known to him through long years of acquaintance. After the meeting the guests were led through the different rooms of the building, and great was the mingled interest and curiosity manifested at the sights and objects that met the eyes. After an excellent Chinese feasting, at which all partook, the magistrates and other guests were bowed out, each returning home with very pleasant notions of the opening day. The dispensary since then has been doing excellent work. The number of patients increases very rapidly day after day. Seeing the hundreds come every day, each with his burden of pain and S suffering, one is tempted to ask, what HOW ST. ANDREW'S DISPENSARY IS BY MARY WILLOUGHBY DUKE SLAUGHTER LEE T. ANDREW'S DISPENSARY, since it was opened early this spring, has prospered beyond our wildest dreams. The daily clinics reach truly astonishing proportions. The dispensary has been open less than three months, and already over 8,000 patients have been seen in clinics alone. The week closing to-day has been the record week. The clinic will open in about an hour, and if the patients are up to the average of this week, there will have been 1,000 seen in six days. The first serious operation was on a little slave girl, who had a terrible gangrene of one of her feet, making amputation necessary. The gangrene was said to have been caused by the cutting into the flesh of a chain, which her master had put around her foot as a punishment for some offence. She was in a terribly exhausted and weakened condition when the operation was performed, and it was undertaken in much uncertainty as to whether she would live through it. She did and made a splendid recovery, going away on her little crutches, made by the native carpenter, under the doctor's direction, a fat, rosy, little creature, hardly recognizable as the same child who came for treatment a month before. One afternoon a woman came whose scalp had been completely torn off in a boat accident. She also made a good recovery, staying on a boat just outside of the compound, and coming every day for treatment. One small boy is getting over a serious operation, and, while convalescing, is living with several members of his family, and another patient, in a room belonging to one of our servants, who is glad to add to his income by taking lodgers. The last surgical case is recovering in the same room with the little boy. He is a man who came in last Sunday night and had to have his leg taken off at once. The operation was finished at twelve, midnight, and he spent the remainder of that night in the waitingroom of the dispensary. The next day he had to be moved about from one room to another, as one room happened to be in use and another not, until he finally got tired of such a wandering life, and was moved to his present quarters. Not an ideal life for people recovering from illnesses, but there is nowhere else for them. The little girl who was the first to be operated on made her recovery in a very dilapidated old house on the compound, which was then vacant. It has since been put in excellent condition through the generosity of some friends, and is being temporarily occupied by Deaconess Henderson, whom the medical work in Wusih has been most fortunate in securing. A little house is being built for her now, and when it is finished her present quarters will be used as an How St. Andrew's Dispensary is Relieving Needless Pain 645 emergency hospital. The house will only hold eight beds, and is a mere makeshift until the real hospital can be built. How long we shall have to wait for the badly-needed hospital is a question which can best be answered by the Church in far off America. The Chinese here are thoroughly interested and want to help, but we should have to wait long indeed before they alone could build it. Nearly all of the opium cases have been women, who, in their domestic unhappiness, took the only means of revenge and of escape in their power by trying to commit suicide. One eighteen months' old baby helped to save its mother's life by beating her over the head with a chopstick. The baby thought it was a fine game, and it served to keep off the deadly sleep until the medicines could take effect. Every morning prayers are held in the dispensary, and during clinic one of the Chinese Christians gives instruction to the patients who are waiting their turn. There is no attempt at forcing any to listen, but the daily opportunity is afforded of hearing the Gospel, and we can but hope that it will find a place in the hearts of some. The work from which we hope most is that done by Deaconess Henderson among the few patients who are staying on the compound, and their families. Their gratitude puts them in a particularly receptive frame of mind, and their being here for a considerable length of time gives better opportunities for thorough instruction. Deaconess Henderson is peculiarly fitted for her work here, having had splendid training in both religious and medical work. DR. SZE, DR. LEE'S ZEALOUS CHINESE ASSISTANT, AND HIS FAMILY Dr. Sze, trained thoroughly as he is in western medicine, and possessing the further qualification of a consecrated Christian character, is also a valuable member of the staff. The work here is richly blessed in having the hearty sympathy and support of all classes. It needs the further blessing of an increased staff of workers, and a hospital where the sick may be cared for as their sufferings demand, and as their touching confidence in the "foreign teachers" deserves. The latest message from Wusih is a postscript from Dr. Claude "P. S. 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